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Entries for December, 2008

My Geek Christmas

I think we are done with our various Christmas celebrations and my friends and family over-did for me this year (as usual): Lego Imperial Star Destroyer – Star Wars Set 6211. My awesome wife got this for me. Many of the folks I work with at BlueTie have proudly decorated their cubicles with Legos and [...]

Senario NRG MicroFly RC Hovering UFO

I like RC toys, particularly those that fly, so when I saw the MicroFly I knew I had to have one… and another four as Christmas gifts for my family. I usually embrace the opportunity purchase toys for my younger nephews that make noise, launch projectiles or fly around so this was a rather obvious [...]

Setting up PostgreSQL on Linux and connecting using pgAdmin III

In my previous post I covered setting up/installing MySQL and connecting via MySQL Administrator from a remote host. In this post I will talk about the PostgreSQL equivalent. As a side note, any database system should always be behind a firewall of some kind. Putting up a database server on a public IP using the [...]